The Friary and Friary Close

The Friary and Friary Close, Westgate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286862
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: The Friary and Friary Close
Statutory Address:: The Friary and Friary Close, Westgate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1286862
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: The Friary and Friary Close
Statutory Address 1:: The Friary and Friary Close, Westgate

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Friary and Friary Close, Westgate

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Tickhill
National Grid Reference:: SK 58604 92755

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 5892 5/3

WESTGARE (south side) The Friary and Friary Close

(Formerly listed as The Friary)

27.12.62

GV II

Friary now divided into two separate dwellings. Founded as an Augustinian Friary circa 1260 by John Clarel, a canon of Southwell, and dissolved in 1530. Subsequently a house, held by the Slyman family in the C17 and the Hawkesworths in the C18. Its church housed the Fitzwilliam tomb (now in the Parish Church) until 1538. Present buildings, although problematical, are substantially Cl4, adapted for domestic use in the C17 (perhaps at the time of the lintel dated 1663), and enlarged in C19.

Coursed rubble. Stone slate roofs to pre-C19 parts, Welsh slate elsewhere. Two storeys and attics. The house consists of two mediaeval blocks, joined at their south-east, and, north-west corners respectively, the west block extended westwards in two parts, the first with a C19 added first storey and south wing, the second ground floor only. Also C19 is a wing filling the angle formed by the mediaeval blocks. An engraving of 1810 shows sash windows, so the present mullion and transom are therefore nearly all of C19 date. One possible exception is tile two-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor north wall of tile first nester part of the west block.

The only other pre-C19 features visible externally are as follows:-

1. Three stepped buttresses on the north side of the west block, with sections of a plain string. course above them.

2. A straight-headed door, probably C18, on south side of west block, shown on the 1810 plan.

3. A triangular chimney breast on very fine moulded corbelling at the west end of the east block, with a thinner shaft below the corbelling. Its stack, together with the others, which are all corniced, is probably C19, but looks C18.

4. Upper part of trefoil-headed lancet on first floor to north of the chimney breast. (The window below with Y-tracery is shown as a sash on the 1810 engraving)

5. Pair of blocked doorways at first floor level on south wall of east block (perhaps garderobes).

6. Blocked mediaeval window of two ogival arches in centre of ground floor of south front of east block.

7. Lintel and Artisan Mannerist rusticated door surround dated 1663, and presumably re-set in porch on north side of western part of west block.

The most spectacular feature, however, is largely internal, although its north end is partly visible from outside. This is a late C15 two-bay arcade with moulded two-centred arches springing from embattled capitals adorned with Tudor rose badges: sculpted figure of an angle in spandrels. It runs along east end of west block, and has to be seen from inside the C19 infill block. Below the southern arch is, presumably reset, a C14 ogee-headed doorway. Further west along a passage in the west block is a two-centre arch, perhaps of C13, at least of C14 date.

Listing NGR: SK5860492755

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 334416
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.